Aug 25, 2012

80 Ayurveda colleges denied permission to admit students

By IANS,
New Delhi : The government has denied 80 Ayurveda colleges permission
to admit students for the year 2012-13 because they lacked
infrastructural facilities, parliament was informed Friday.
"Of 261 Ayurveda colleges in the country, till Aug 22, 161 colleges
have been permitted to admit students. Eighty colleges were denied
permission," S. Gandhiselvan, minister of state for health and family
welfare, told the Lok Sabha in a written reply.
"There are a total of 261 colleges teaching the Indian system of medicine," Gandhiselvan said.
Eighty colleges were denied permission to take in a fresh batch of
students as they failed to meet requirements such as qualified faculty
and at least one teacher in each department, besides being attached to a
hospital.
Government norms for such medical colleges also lay down other
parameters, like number of beds, out-patient department (OPD) attendance
and in-patient department (IPD) bed occupancy.
While there are plans to mainstream AYUSH (Ayurveda, Yoga,
Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy), the government does not plan
to deploy AYUSH doctors in rural areas.
"The government does not propose to deploy AYUSH doctors in rural or
remote areas after imparting one-year training in allopathic medicine to
them," Gandhiselvan clarified.